1 Peter 2:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.”
Read 1 Peter 2:16 in the flow of 1 Peter2 for its full sense, then follow the cross-references below to the passages that echo it. Open 1 Peter2 to see the surrounding context.
“Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.”
King James Version · Public Domain“as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Peter 2:16 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Matthew 23:13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
- John 8:32Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
- John 15:22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.
- Romans 6:18You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
- Romans 6:22But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.
- 1 Corinthians 7:22For he who was a slave when he was called by the Lord is the Lord’s freedman. Conversely, he who was a free man when he was called is Christ’s slave.
- Galatians 5:1It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.
- Galatians 5:13For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
- Ephesians 6:6And do this not only to please them while they are watching, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart.
- Colossians 3:24because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:5As you know, we never used words of flattery or any pretext for greed. God is our witness!
- James 1:25But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.
- James 2:12Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom.
- 2 Peter 2:19They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
- Jude 1:4For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
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